LETTER: President's thinking is just like two thousand years ago

Two thousand years ago — the same scenario. Herod with his ultimate degree of savagery annihilated babies by the hundreds. Why? His demented thinking led him to believe that among those infants, there would be a child named Jesus who would one day become a source of power and majesty more real than Rome’s. Demigod that he perceived himself to be, he could not risk being pushed off the edge of his anticipated glorious future.

Today we are faced with the multiple deaths of so many little ones — planned and executed at the hands of someone crazed by the lure of violence and bloodshed. His was a leviathan nature apparently fed by his mother who taught him how to weaponize.

Perhaps we breathe the remains of their dust into our nostrils as far away as here in our town. Do we feel their last breaths in December’s dank fog and encounter their tears in the winter rains?

Our nation’s leader appeared on TV lamenting along with our entire country, the bitter blow this was to our emotional and parental consciousness. Condemning the mass murders, he pointed out that the killer must have emerged from a dark, cold dissipated place very different from where the rest of us came forth. How ironic his perception of this, since he has legislated the deaths of children while still in the womb. All of us who are alive, are grown up fetuses. Fortunate are we who had mothers who carried us, fed, guarded, and loved us when we were nothing more than tiny specks of life within the bodies of women who rejoiced in the miracle of conception.

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Not so different the view of our president today from the thinking of the infamous Herod centuries ago who both believed that the destruction of helpless beings by a more formidable human being for the sake of convenience, power, and comfort is acceptable. Who will express compassion and sorrow, and sing songs of love for those children who never made the shift from the womb to the world? Who from our chief executive down will be the voice for these voiceless ones?

We are told that our country was built upon: “the right to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Really? Not for those drenched in the blood of abortion! Those who have the power, write the history of the culture of death, which obviously has ancient roots. How quintessentially opposite to Jesus who said, “I am the Resurrection and Life.” Who is there to reassert connectedness between Creator and creature?